Beth Terry writes Some of my best friends are plastic bags! Many people consider plastic bags to
be evil and have discarded them in favor of reusable totes. Which is fine. But
this article is about saving old plastic grocery bags and reusing them in place
of things for which we'd otherwise have to buy new plastic. It emphasizes
Re-use before Re-cycling.

Aaron Newton submitted The
4 Day Work Week
The clear fact that a 4 day work week would save such a precious
non-renewable resource is just the first of 16 reasons why I think it's
time to revive the idea of reducing the numbers of days we work each
week.

Amanda Hanley writes on 7 ways to reduce your exposure to PBDE flame retardants. PBDEs are everywhere, and there's some evidence connecting them to brain
and developmental problems in animals and possibly even cancer. Exposure to
flame retardant chemicals is ubiquitous, but there are things you can do to keep
the concentration of PBDEs in your body as low as possible.